RE: Experiences with VISTA -- MIDRANGE-L

My guess is that we will not go to Vista for at least a year on college
owned systems (except for testing and where an app we must have will
require it). First, none of our current hardware will be able to take
advantage of the Aero interface due to graphic card issues and most
systems only have 512MB RAM (Don't even think about running Vista on
less than 1GB - I have 1GB on my home vista system and after boot it
shows 50% of that in use before I even start any applications). We will
start buying Vista ready hardware in the future but on a 4 year
replacement cycle it will be some time before we will have the equipment
needed to run it everywhere. iSeries Access has not given me any trouble
but after installing Office 2007 and a Microsoft game at home Vista
started to "blue screen" on me. 

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces+mcunning=pct.edu@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces+mcunning=pct.edu@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Darrell A Martin
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2007 8:32 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: Experiences with VISTA

Hi, Paul:

I'm only concerned with the effects of a rollout of the released OS to
our 
users here, specifically keeping Wintronix and iSeries Access working. 
Thankfully our network admin is dragging his feet, with cleats on
[grin].

It is a poorly kept secret that late alpha builds of what is now Vista 
"somehow" escaped Redmond. I'm not sure, but I'd be surprised if the
beta 
itself didn't pop up somewhere ahead of schedule. So when the beta was 
officially released, you had about 2,000 slavering hackers with exploits

already in the cyber equivalent of shrink-wrap. It might as well have
been 
a track meet.

Only the latency of the 'Net, and the desire of the most 
notorious/accomplished in the hacker community to maintain street cred 
(which required quick confirming tests), made it take as long as 17 
minutes.

Darrell

Darrell A. Martin  -  630-754-2141
Manager, Computer Operations
dmartin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/18/2007 07:28:35 PM:

Always remember that when the Vista beta was released last summer that

it

only took 17 minutes before the first security hack was announced.

Paul Nelson





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